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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 2h

Everyone needs to go read Si Land. Some of the best anthro art I’ve ever seen in a manga. Super slept on.

A manga cover of a black anthro canine holding a sword, for Si Land vol3

A manga cover with a white anthro canine, Si Land vol 1

A manga cover with an anthro lion. Si Land Vol2

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 20/09/2026

Last day at #asc2026! Thanks to everyone that’s come by so far, I’ve been having such a good time!!

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 17/09/2026

The feather texture you manage to achieve is next level. Also so happy to see art of a female cardinal <33

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 16/09/2026

Huge shoutout and thanks to @anthrosocal.org vendor lead for being a rockstar and helping me solve some last minute issues (that were entirely my fault). I appreciate you!

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 14/09/2026

Little tiny raven on purpleheart wood that I gifted to @luminesc <3

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 14/09/2026

Actually..! I just saw your ASC table display post and I realize the one you have there also has the oil slick! I can either grab that one or leave it for someone else and preorder later! ^^

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 14/09/2026

Me! I still plan to check the one out at ASC, but I know you made it with different glass so depending on how it looks I may hold off to preorder if you’d be doing it with the oil-slick sorta glass again.

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 10/09/2026

Looks sooo good! I love the colors and especially the eyeshadow ✨

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fell down a Ron Francis rabbit hole after seeing this post earlier. Sublime

Painting by Ron Francis, ‘Russell Williams’ Tree’

Painting by Ron Francis, ‘Room With a View’

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 09/09/2026

Aaa thank you Caim!! I think I finished the whole thing in maybe 10 or so hours? I tend to keep the iron hot so I can work fast X)

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 08/09/2026

Oh excellent!! Look forward to seeing you there :3

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 08/09/2026

Ohhh that’s awesome!! I love that when you’ve done a craft, you have a deeper understanding of it when you see someone else’s work. I appreciate u sharing that you’ve worked w the medium, it’s SO fun and satisfying.

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 08/09/2026

Seriously. Like.. this is what gets made when there is huge budget and the artist gets directorial control. I wish everyone could see it (though I understand it’s too rough for many).. there is nothing else quite like it.

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 08/09/2026

Went to see Akira in IMAX the other day. I’m not usually one to go to theatre releases but I felt like I was gonna see a lot of detail I otherwise missed and I was right. Was worth it and now I’m nursing a minor hyperfixation 🥹

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Akira Tokyo: Cyberpunk Cityscape

ALT: Akira Tokyo: Cyberpunk Cityscape

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 08/09/2026

Thanks so much!! I love your icon btw X3

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 08/09/2026

It’s 5x13” and took a couple work periods so maybe 10 or so hours total? I always lose track of time when I’m having fun XD. Thanks so much!!

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 08/09/2026

It’s the energy I wanna move forward with, yanno? x3. Thanks so much!

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 07/09/2026

Older wood burning that I kept for myself <3

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 07/09/2026

I think it’s a relief that the older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized just how little control I had over who I was as a kid and young adult. We all did what we had to do to survive, and it’s hard when everyone we rely on for shelter/safety/love thinks they know who we are.

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 07/09/2026

I will be at @anthrosocal.org ! Easiest to remember booth location ever. Which gets your vote? Oxcart or Avenger? x)

Map of ASC 2026 dealers den with Bazteki’s location shown.

Photo of a model of the proposed A 12 avenger.

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.